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rmistice—and a War-Minded World
he brawn of a war-minded ion forges ahead today, with a grim determinate celebrate a former ’s armistice by laying the ndation for tomorrow’s ory. Throughout the land ly a people will toil, while Irhead the star-spangled mer affirms a unity of pose that for more than |years has made of this na-a symbol of strength and |dom to other lands.
|oday as never before, Mr. »rica appreciates the cause [which he took up arms a
generation ago and appreci- tion has lost its energy. To- our one excuse for fighting, ; blind eagerness of our society
ates the error he made in no* day Mr. America’s conviction, the source from which each to regard the last war as the
following up that first victory belief in united purpose, de- man at the front derives in- final convulsion in ridding
with means to perpetuate the termination to rid the world spiration to go ahead, wheth-
very principles for which he of degenerate philosophies 1 er he is aware of it or not.
battled. He finds himself en- has inspired him to convert In the future, Armistice day
gaged in a second war that already has outdistanced conflicts of the past in respect to hatred, fear, destruction, havoc, and brutality. Seeing these things and adjusting himself to attendant changes in his way of living at first made him want to retreat, to seek escape in cynical indifference. But this first reac-
peacetime industry into a pro- 0f November 11 will be looked hats
the earth of barbarianism.
Twenty-five years ago men and women took off their
ductive inferno, belching forth machines of destruction every hour, day and night.
That a liberty-minded public could adjust itself to war tempo in a short time is an indication of pride in possession. Liberty, that intrinsic virtue we wish to preserve, is
upon, not as the final contract among nations for a lasting peace, but only as another milestone in that di-
and, looking upward, cried for joy that peace was theirs. Today we buckle down our helmets and, cognizant of our own mistakes, smile in-
rection. That its significance wardly as we plow ahead, has been mistakenly viewed making use of one Armistice
Invasion of Africa
Substitutes Front. FDR
for 2nd Declares
as the ultimate goal among men has not been due to a lack of foresight, but to the
day in preparation for another .. . perhaps, the last.
—Sam Roeca
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Urojan
'ol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1942
Night Phone: RI. 5471
No. 38
omic Play Backs ^ar Stamp Sale
•rama Workshop Cast Rehearses in Bovard n Preparation for First Performance Friday
The sets are up, the lights are ready, and the cast is ly for a stellar performance this Friday night,” stated l Miles, director of the Drama workshop production >rge Washington Slept Here” a few hours before the op-g rehearsal in Bovard auditorium yesterday, is production will mark the
[of a series of "war effort' plays given by the drama workshop. Miles statec that every other rtment in the school is doing lit to contribute to the war ef-ind that the workshop is goir.s its part by producting this se-3f patriotic plays.
play will open Friday night /ed by a performance on Sat-night, and one on Monday |ng.
|>ndav night's presentation will turned over to the sororities fraternities of 28th street, and >est blocks of seats In Bovard be turned over to the house will buy the largest number ir stamps.
outstanding Kaufman and Jomedy. which had a two-year |i the New York stage, has re-been made into a movie with Benny and Ann Sheridan lg the leading roles. Kaufman lart, who gained fame for their jtions “You Can’t. Take It rou,” and ‘•The Man Who to Dinner," hsve equaled [past performances m this stated the director, krge Washington Slept Here" typical sophisticated comedy (brings out a conflict between oik and country dwellers, a high-toned city family into an eastern farmhouse, »gin to learn for the first If the trouoles of the farmer |e soon convinced t.iat hisjife fas simple as it looks, production “George Wash-Slept Here” will be given liday, Saturday and Monday |s, Nov. 13. 14, and 16. The tickets for Monday night >e given to the sorority or rnity hous<* that buys the defense stamps, instead of the most stamps as it was in yesterday's paper.
)mance is built up between |1 Brinkerhoff ana Barry and this undertone of ro-which runs all through the |y gives it a popular appeal. I non-profit production is en- i sponsored by the drama [ hop, and any student desiring tend the play will receive a for each 50 cents worth of stamps bought either from Victory hut or from members cast.
Army Inducts Hancock Artist
Martin Ruderman, flute player for the Allan Hancock ensemble, played in his last recital before en-! tering the armed forces when he appeared with the ensemble at a ! student assembly yesterday morning.
Introduced by President Rufus B. von Klein-Smid, the SC musical group presented a varied musical program. Among the numbers offered were Mosart’s “Fantasy,” Shu-bert's Third Symphony, Bach's Fourth Prelude in D Minor, Brahm's “Cradle Song,” and several selections representing the music of France. Brazil, and Spain.
Doheny Opens Browsing Room on Book Week
The newest books, fiction and non-fiction, will be placed in the browsing room of Doheny library to be opened next Monday.
Coinciding with the national observance of book week, the opening of the new room will enable students to look through and read extra-curricular literature at their leisure.
Site of the new reading room will be in the southwest wing of the main floor of Doheny library. After the first week books in the browsing chamber will be permitted to circulate for the customary 14 days. Charging out will be done through the loan department under the direction of Miss Florence A. Youngman.
Although the purpose of the room is for browsing, students will not be permitted to talk, and the same general rules will apply here as in other departments of the library.
President Opens Credit Conference
Management Conclave Considers Postwar
Economy at Luncheon Meeting Tomorrow
“The Problem and Its Setting,” is the subject of the address by Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid which will open the first of two conferences on credit management and postwar economy tomorrow at a luncheon meeting in the Foyer of
Town and Gown.
Drive Into Western Europe Could Not Be Made in '42 With Chance of Reasonable Success/ President Avers
LONDON, Wednesday, Nov. 11—(U.P.)—Adolf Hitler w^s reported by the Paris radio today to have announced that German troops were occupying the remainder of France and Corsica as a counter move to the American invasion of north Africa.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—(U.P.)—President Roosevelt said today the American invasion of North Africa was a second-front substitute for a bigger western Europe drive which could not have been launched until 1943 and which, if attempted in 1942, could not have been carried out with a chance of reasonable success.
He made it plain, however, that there will be more second-fronts now that the African campaign is under way—but he wouldn’t say where or when.
He revealed that the idea of the second front was born two weeks after Pearl Harbor when British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made the first of two visits to Washington. American and British military men went to work on the problem right then, he disclosed. Then, Mr. Roosevelt revealed this time table of second-front planning:
End of June—Decision to strike at North Africa. •
End of July—Decision on the number of men necessary and points of attack.
End of August—Decision on the date for opening the African second front.
Henderson Field Situation Eased
WASHINGTON. Nov. 10 —(U.P)—
The army and marine defenders of
Henderson field, vital U.S. airbase
* 4- « i on Guadalcanal, are numerically
Besides Flutist Ruderman. It was thf and the sltlla.
announced by Commentator W. E. Strobridge that two other musicians have been called into the service. They are Ambrose Russo, violinist, and Bartley Hunt, bass player.
The Hancock Ensemble broadcasts every Sunday evening from 8 to 8::30 over station KHJ. Over a two-
tion is “rapidly shaping up” in our favor, marines corps commandant Lieut. Gen. Thomas Holcomb said today.
Just returned from an Inspection tour of fne Pacific, Holcomb was a guest of Secretary of the Navy
year period, the ensemble has i Frank Knox s press conference. A broadcast 94 radio concerts and has : highlight of his remarks was .that
presented 57 other programs on the campus of the university In addition it has played 89 concerts in other communities up and down the Pacific coast, including a number of the larger military encampments of the United States armed forces.
the Americans are taking relatively few prisoners on Guadalcanal.
“We kill all we can,” he said grimly, adding that the Jap soldier is not trained to be captured— “When he is, he is officially dead,” the result is that many of “Tojo’s terrors” commit suicide rather than surrender.
Holcomb said the American forces include a full marine divi-
Members of the Radio Writing j sion-number of personnel not
staff will meet for thc first time . stated—in addition to army troops, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at 919 West ; ‘ The Americans individually are 28th street. Lynn Randall, chair- better soldiers than the Japanese man, announces that activities for although we feared otherwise at the coming year will be planned. 1 first,” he said.
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Radio Staff Meets
House Passes Teen Age Bill
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—(T.E)— A compromise ’teen-age draft bill, stripped of the controversial amendment calling for a year of pre-combat training for 18 and 19 year old inductees, was approved by the house by voice vote tpday and sent to the senate for final consideration.
The action came a few hours af -ter house and senate conferees agreed unanimously to eliminate the training amendment which was written in by the senate over vigorous protests from President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and other high adminis tration officials.
The senate is expected to vote on the conference report this week probably Thursday. Administration leaders are hopeful lt will accept the compromise <and it probably will now that the American armies have invaded French north Africa.
As it reached the senate, the bill also includes:
1—A senate amendment providing draft deferments for persons “necessary to and regularly engaged in” agriculture. The selective service system, through local boards, would determine any individual’s status under this provision.
2—A senate provision exempting from the draft, registrants over 45, but revised to permit such persons to volunteer for service. The house had proposed to permit drafting of men who were not over 45 at the time they registered.
Cs Enter r Force
an-
*ar department bulletin fces that students enrolled in •nlisted reserve corps fer to the air corps enlisted Ire except wh^n they are mem-jf the advanced course reserve brs' training corps.
communication states that jplications will be forwarded to lommanding general of the ser-jmmand in which the college bated, and each applicant will [forded an .opportunity to ap-| before an air corps cadet exboard for the required and mental examinations, applicant is successful in uninatio.'is, he will then be
Churchill Names FDR Author' of Invasion
Kaiser to Build New 7-Day Ship
RICHMOND, Cal., Nov. 10—<U.P> —Workmen at the Henry J. Kaiser shipyards tonight continued round-the-clock assembly-line production methods on the 10.000-ton Robert E. Peary and officials at the plant
LONDON, Nov. 10_(U.P.)—Prime Minister Churchill said predicted the ship would be launch
today that President Roosevelt was the “author" of the American campaign in French Africa, in which Britain has joined for the one purpose of gaining “vantage ground through which to open a new front against Adolf Hitler.”
“In ah of it, I have been his
active and ardent lieutenant,” Churchill said, declaring that in the Egyptian battle which served as a maJ' necessary prelude to the American undertaking. Britain has scored “a remarkable and definite victory!” Summing up Allied aims in northwest Africa, Churchill ^id Eritain and the United States have no acquisitive aims agp.inst France but only “wish to see France free with a strong empire gatheied around her and with Alsace-Lorraine restored."
“I am prepared to stite my faith that France will said.
As for Portugal and Spain, the
Allies will “do all possible to enrich th* economic life of the Iberian
peninsula ... our policy is that they be independent, free and prosperous, and at peace; the Spaniards especially, after all their troubles, require and deserve peace and recuperation.”
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s axis army has been defeated, routed. and very largely destroyed as a fighting force, Churchill said, and the Germans, in close and bloody combat with the British eighth army ‘have received that measure of fire and steel whicn tney have rise again,” he so often meted out to others.”
‘‘Now this is not the end,” he I said. “It is not even the beginning
of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”
ed less than a week a£ter keel laying to establish a new world’s record.
The keel for the Liberty ship was laid at shipyard number two at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. Sometime between. Thursday and Sunday, she will be christened and sent down the ways.
Officials predicted another world record would be set for they estimated the Peary would require only two days to be outfitted and then would be ready to sail.
Clay Bedford, manager of the yard, said the new ship was the last word in pre-fabricated assembly-line production in shipbuilding and that the Peary was no “special job” but was being built by regular crews, working average man hours.
Previous world record for ship assembly was 10 days, set by Kaiser’s Portland shipyard Sept. 23 with the Joseph N. Teal, another 10.000-ton Liberty vessel.
The conference, sponsored by SC and five leading credit associations, is under the general chairmanship of Dr. Park J. Ewart, head of the department of finance.
Arriving from the nation’s capital will be the special advisor to th^ office of price administration, Rolf Nugent. He will address the afternoon sessions, both tomorrow and Friday. His respective topics are ‘‘Shortages; Their Relation to Price Control, Rationing, and Credit Policies/' and “ Economic Consequences of Credit Regulations.”
DAVID WEIR SPEAKS
In addition to Mr. Nugent, afternoon speakers will include David A. Weir, acting executive manager of the national association of credit men of New York, whose subject will be “Credits in a World at War.” Charles H. Watts, president, Beneficial Industrial Loan corporation, who will speak on “Economic Consequences of Credit Regulation.”
W. M. Hale, vice-president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve bank will also be a luncheon speaker.
MoCLUNG FEATURED Friday’s luncheon and afternoon meetings will hear the same speakers in addition to Dr. Reid L. McClung, dean of ,the College of Commerce and Business Administration, with a dinner and forum to follow which will feature an address by President von KleinSmid on “Credit Management and Leadership.”
The dinner meeting tomorrow night at 7:45 p.m. will te under the direction of Dr. Rex F. Harlow, president of the American Council of Public Relations. This will also take place in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
PROGRAM EXPLAINED
The series of conferences will begin at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow with registration in Town and Grown. The program \rll include a luncheon meeting, a ternoon discussions, a dinner sesfion, and an evening discussion forum. A similar program will be maintained for Friday.
Moderator for# the conferences ls Dr. Rex Harlow, associate professor of public relations of Stanford university. Dr. Harlow will preside over both sessions of the forum.
Marcuse Talks on Refugee s Life
The Men’s Faculty club will hear Dr. Ludwig Marcuse, German refugee author, discuss “The Life of a Refugee” at a luncheon meeting in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall at noon today.
Dr. Marcuse, the author of many biographies, will present the amusing as well as the serious side of the refugee's life. He is one of a group of well-known German writers, including Broun Frank, Erich Remarque, Thomas Mann, Franz Werfel, and Leon Feuchtwanger, all of whom are now living in Los Angeles.
In the event more attend than have been planned for, those having permanent seating reservations will be given seating preference. Any cancellations must be made in advance of the luncheon
Dr. Nordskog Debates Local Indian Student
Asit Ghosh Defends Freedom Requests of His Fatherland
Debating on the question of Indian independence, Thursday at 2:15 p.m. at the Sigma Chi house, 848 West 36th street, will be Dr. John Nordskog, professor of sociology, and Asit Ghosh, graduate student from India who is working for his M.A. degree at SC.
Dr. Nordskog believes that India should be granted her independence now only on the condition that she would support the allies in the present conflict. Ghosh is, on the other hand, thoroughly convinced that India should be given her immediate and unconditional freedom.
As the Indian independence ques-, tion is one of the greatest facing the world today, all students are invited to attend this meeting and take part in the discussion following.
SESSION SPONSORED
This “Bull session” is sponsored by the public affairs committee and Shirley Inlow and Betty Brown will act as student chairmen.
Our decision on the amount of independence we allow India will un-doubtly have some effect upon the extent of freedom that the United Nations will grant any country after the war and the philosophy that they will carry out,” said Dr. Nordskog.
ALLIES SHOULD HELP
He feels that in order to attain complete unity between the allies which is so vital now, England alone with ,the United Nations should support the allied program rather than expect their non-violence theory to be effective against the axis powers, although non-violence has not been unsuccessful against the British.
Air Wardens Called
All air raid wardens and fire watchers appointed by fraternities, sororities, and the dormitories are to meet at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, 833 West 28th street, tonight at 7:15.
He disclosed that the presidential messages which were delivered to French Chief of State Henri Philippe Petain and African officials at the moment of the American invasion Saturday night actually were the transcription of his broadcast to the French people—which was shortwaved to France and Africa Saturday night.
RUSSIA CONSULTED
He made it plain that Russia and the other 'American allies were fully consulted and left the implication that Russia approved the offensive.
The timetable showed the African second front decision was reached before the recent allied raid on Dieppe, French port just across the English channel from Britain.
Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that the people were beginning to talk about a second front when actually a second front decision already had been made.
FRONT DISCUSSED EARLY
He revealed that from the mo ment Churchill and his staff arrived here two weeks after Pearl Harbor, American and British leaders continually considered and discussed many possibilities for an offensive, especially the possibility of a large frontal attack across the channel.
Military and naval opinion at the time, he said, was that such a frontal attack would be feasible and a great deal of work was done along those lines.
But more thorough studies of the physical problems involved made it more and more apparent, he said, that an offensive against the Belgian coast could not be carried out (Continued on Page Four)
Baxter Discusses Poetry in War
The war’s effect on poetic talent is the subject of the speech that Dr. Frank Baxter, professor of English language and literature, will give at the regular meeting of the Friday Morning club, at 10 a.m. in the Figueroa clubhouse.
Since the advent of World war II, there has beer considerable flowering of the poetic pen in England. Young men sent to the front have turned their thoughts to poetry in an effort to express their feelings, and some excellent verse has been turned out, according to Dr. Baxter.
Many of the finest potential poets were lost in the first world war, but as was true then, probably the best work will be turned out after the war when a clearer perspective can be gained, he added.
Dr. Long Illustrates Democratic Values
“Democracy, Axis Dictatorship and Truth,” was the theme of Dr. Wilber Long’s lecture before the 25th annual philosophy forum yesterday in Bowne hall. Dr. Long contrasted Democratic values and truth with the axis’ disregard for all things that western civilization has set up as fine and right.
Using the statement that “Truth
BMOCs Win Their Laurels in Who s Who'
Selected College Group Receives Nominations of 20 SC Students
Recognized for character, scholarship, leadership, and potentiality for future usefulness to business and society were 20 students who were nominated by a senate committee under Bob McKay for membership in Who’s Who Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges.
The Who’s Who publicaton was created ten years ago as a basis for national recognition for students, without politics, initiation fees, and dues. The book provides a standard reference volume of authoritative information on America's leading college students. Whos’ Who provides an added incentive for student* to get the best results from their college experience.
MANY COLLEGES ENTER
Six hundred and fifty colleges and universities participate in the plan which endeavors to make desirable placements for those listed in the book.
This year’s nominees form SC are Clark Bates, football manager; Bill Beaudine, Knight; Bill Bledsoe, football player; Bob Ffske; Don Hoover, Wampus editor; Aurel Gilbert, Blue Key president.
OTHERS NAMED
Ted Gossard, basketball captain; Bruce Graham, Knights’ president; Hubie Kerns, track star; Dick Koontz, NROTC commander; Lael Lee, director of SC’s car-sharing plan; Phil Levine, senior class president.
Russ Lindersmith, head yell king; John Lowe, El Rodeo editor; Gordon Marshall; Leon “Mickey” McCardle, football star; Bob McKay, ASSC president; Hugh McKeller, president of the college of commerce; Ted Olewine, assistant yell leader; and Sam Roeca. Daily Trojan editor.
All-U Chorus
. . member^ of the singing chorus for the all-U show, “ 'Neath Tommy Trojan,” are requested to report to 4 Music building at 4 p.m. today. Members who miss two rehearsals are automatically dropped from the chorus, Lynn Cohne, producer of the show, explained.
and good faith are the life blood of democracy,” Dr. Long commented that there is no place in a democracy for false propaganda, because a democracy can only thrive on truth and as soon as false statements and false rumor? begin to filter into the minds of the people they tend to lose faith in their government.
It was not until the bombing of Pearl Harbor that the western world began to think about the danger that faced it. It was then for the first time that they began to consider the aggressions of the axis nations as a reality.
“Democracy,” ^i°n? brought out, “is not only a form of government by the people, but it is a way of life a moral outlook towards people and nations.’* Dr. Long pre-
sented the idea that nations as a whole must maintain a high degree of good faith between them in order to keep from having another misunderstanding between nations, which will, if not corrected at the end of this conflict, only lead to another world war.
Dr. Long told the forum that democracy represented the complete and mature flowering of civilization, while axis dictatorship retrograded to early tribelism.
It was pointed out that in any number of cases the dictator nations bandoned all ideals of truth and honor to gain their ends. Dr. Long made the emphatic remark, ‘‘That if the axis powers win this war, we cannot fear desth when ue think of a life in an axis dominated world.”
Marine Officers Interview Men for Acceptance
Men students who have passed their marine corps physical examinations will be interviewed for acceptance into the corps today by members of the marine corps enlistment group who will meet for this purpose in 16 Physical Education building.
Applicants should bring with them their birth certificates, complete transcripts of scholastic records, parents’ release^ signed in triplicate, five letters of recommendation, and individual photographs.
Students who wish to apply for enlistment in the marine corps reserve and who have not already been accepted may also consult with the representatives.

rmistice—and a War-Minded World
he brawn of a war-minded ion forges ahead today, with a grim determinate celebrate a former ’s armistice by laying the ndation for tomorrow’s ory. Throughout the land ly a people will toil, while Irhead the star-spangled mer affirms a unity of pose that for more than |years has made of this na-a symbol of strength and |dom to other lands.
|oday as never before, Mr. »rica appreciates the cause [which he took up arms a
generation ago and appreci- tion has lost its energy. To- our one excuse for fighting, ; blind eagerness of our society
ates the error he made in no* day Mr. America’s conviction, the source from which each to regard the last war as the
following up that first victory belief in united purpose, de- man at the front derives in- final convulsion in ridding
with means to perpetuate the termination to rid the world spiration to go ahead, wheth-
very principles for which he of degenerate philosophies 1 er he is aware of it or not.
battled. He finds himself en- has inspired him to convert In the future, Armistice day
gaged in a second war that already has outdistanced conflicts of the past in respect to hatred, fear, destruction, havoc, and brutality. Seeing these things and adjusting himself to attendant changes in his way of living at first made him want to retreat, to seek escape in cynical indifference. But this first reac-
peacetime industry into a pro- 0f November 11 will be looked hats
the earth of barbarianism.
Twenty-five years ago men and women took off their
ductive inferno, belching forth machines of destruction every hour, day and night.
That a liberty-minded public could adjust itself to war tempo in a short time is an indication of pride in possession. Liberty, that intrinsic virtue we wish to preserve, is
upon, not as the final contract among nations for a lasting peace, but only as another milestone in that di-
and, looking upward, cried for joy that peace was theirs. Today we buckle down our helmets and, cognizant of our own mistakes, smile in-
rection. That its significance wardly as we plow ahead, has been mistakenly viewed making use of one Armistice
Invasion of Africa
Substitutes Front. FDR
for 2nd Declares
as the ultimate goal among men has not been due to a lack of foresight, but to the
day in preparation for another .. . perhaps, the last.
—Sam Roeca
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Urojan
'ol. XXXIV
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1942
Night Phone: RI. 5471
No. 38
omic Play Backs ^ar Stamp Sale
•rama Workshop Cast Rehearses in Bovard n Preparation for First Performance Friday
The sets are up, the lights are ready, and the cast is ly for a stellar performance this Friday night,” stated l Miles, director of the Drama workshop production >rge Washington Slept Here” a few hours before the op-g rehearsal in Bovard auditorium yesterday, is production will mark the
[of a series of "war effort' plays given by the drama workshop. Miles statec that every other rtment in the school is doing lit to contribute to the war ef-ind that the workshop is goir.s its part by producting this se-3f patriotic plays.
play will open Friday night /ed by a performance on Sat-night, and one on Monday |ng.
|>ndav night's presentation will turned over to the sororities fraternities of 28th street, and >est blocks of seats In Bovard be turned over to the house will buy the largest number ir stamps.
outstanding Kaufman and Jomedy. which had a two-year |i the New York stage, has re-been made into a movie with Benny and Ann Sheridan lg the leading roles. Kaufman lart, who gained fame for their jtions “You Can’t. Take It rou,” and ‘•The Man Who to Dinner," hsve equaled [past performances m this stated the director, krge Washington Slept Here" typical sophisticated comedy (brings out a conflict between oik and country dwellers, a high-toned city family into an eastern farmhouse, »gin to learn for the first If the trouoles of the farmer |e soon convinced t.iat hisjife fas simple as it looks, production “George Wash-Slept Here” will be given liday, Saturday and Monday |s, Nov. 13. 14, and 16. The tickets for Monday night >e given to the sorority or rnity hous —Workmen at the Henry J. Kaiser shipyards tonight continued round-the-clock assembly-line production methods on the 10.000-ton Robert E. Peary and officials at the plant
LONDON, Nov. 10_(U.P.)—Prime Minister Churchill said predicted the ship would be launch
today that President Roosevelt was the “author" of the American campaign in French Africa, in which Britain has joined for the one purpose of gaining “vantage ground through which to open a new front against Adolf Hitler.”
“In ah of it, I have been his
active and ardent lieutenant,” Churchill said, declaring that in the Egyptian battle which served as a maJ' necessary prelude to the American undertaking. Britain has scored “a remarkable and definite victory!” Summing up Allied aims in northwest Africa, Churchill ^id Eritain and the United States have no acquisitive aims agp.inst France but only “wish to see France free with a strong empire gatheied around her and with Alsace-Lorraine restored."
“I am prepared to stite my faith that France will said.
As for Portugal and Spain, the
Allies will “do all possible to enrich th* economic life of the Iberian
peninsula ... our policy is that they be independent, free and prosperous, and at peace; the Spaniards especially, after all their troubles, require and deserve peace and recuperation.”
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s axis army has been defeated, routed. and very largely destroyed as a fighting force, Churchill said, and the Germans, in close and bloody combat with the British eighth army ‘have received that measure of fire and steel whicn tney have rise again,” he so often meted out to others.”
‘‘Now this is not the end,” he I said. “It is not even the beginning
of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”
ed less than a week a£ter keel laying to establish a new world’s record.
The keel for the Liberty ship was laid at shipyard number two at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. Sometime between. Thursday and Sunday, she will be christened and sent down the ways.
Officials predicted another world record would be set for they estimated the Peary would require only two days to be outfitted and then would be ready to sail.
Clay Bedford, manager of the yard, said the new ship was the last word in pre-fabricated assembly-line production in shipbuilding and that the Peary was no “special job” but was being built by regular crews, working average man hours.
Previous world record for ship assembly was 10 days, set by Kaiser’s Portland shipyard Sept. 23 with the Joseph N. Teal, another 10.000-ton Liberty vessel.
The conference, sponsored by SC and five leading credit associations, is under the general chairmanship of Dr. Park J. Ewart, head of the department of finance.
Arriving from the nation’s capital will be the special advisor to th^ office of price administration, Rolf Nugent. He will address the afternoon sessions, both tomorrow and Friday. His respective topics are ‘‘Shortages; Their Relation to Price Control, Rationing, and Credit Policies/' and “ Economic Consequences of Credit Regulations.”
DAVID WEIR SPEAKS
In addition to Mr. Nugent, afternoon speakers will include David A. Weir, acting executive manager of the national association of credit men of New York, whose subject will be “Credits in a World at War.” Charles H. Watts, president, Beneficial Industrial Loan corporation, who will speak on “Economic Consequences of Credit Regulation.”
W. M. Hale, vice-president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve bank will also be a luncheon speaker.
MoCLUNG FEATURED Friday’s luncheon and afternoon meetings will hear the same speakers in addition to Dr. Reid L. McClung, dean of ,the College of Commerce and Business Administration, with a dinner and forum to follow which will feature an address by President von KleinSmid on “Credit Management and Leadership.”
The dinner meeting tomorrow night at 7:45 p.m. will te under the direction of Dr. Rex F. Harlow, president of the American Council of Public Relations. This will also take place in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
PROGRAM EXPLAINED
The series of conferences will begin at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow with registration in Town and Grown. The program \rll include a luncheon meeting, a ternoon discussions, a dinner sesfion, and an evening discussion forum. A similar program will be maintained for Friday.
Moderator for# the conferences ls Dr. Rex Harlow, associate professor of public relations of Stanford university. Dr. Harlow will preside over both sessions of the forum.
Marcuse Talks on Refugee s Life
The Men’s Faculty club will hear Dr. Ludwig Marcuse, German refugee author, discuss “The Life of a Refugee” at a luncheon meeting in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall at noon today.
Dr. Marcuse, the author of many biographies, will present the amusing as well as the serious side of the refugee's life. He is one of a group of well-known German writers, including Broun Frank, Erich Remarque, Thomas Mann, Franz Werfel, and Leon Feuchtwanger, all of whom are now living in Los Angeles.
In the event more attend than have been planned for, those having permanent seating reservations will be given seating preference. Any cancellations must be made in advance of the luncheon
Dr. Nordskog Debates Local Indian Student
Asit Ghosh Defends Freedom Requests of His Fatherland
Debating on the question of Indian independence, Thursday at 2:15 p.m. at the Sigma Chi house, 848 West 36th street, will be Dr. John Nordskog, professor of sociology, and Asit Ghosh, graduate student from India who is working for his M.A. degree at SC.
Dr. Nordskog believes that India should be granted her independence now only on the condition that she would support the allies in the present conflict. Ghosh is, on the other hand, thoroughly convinced that India should be given her immediate and unconditional freedom.
As the Indian independence ques-, tion is one of the greatest facing the world today, all students are invited to attend this meeting and take part in the discussion following.
SESSION SPONSORED
This “Bull session” is sponsored by the public affairs committee and Shirley Inlow and Betty Brown will act as student chairmen.
Our decision on the amount of independence we allow India will un-doubtly have some effect upon the extent of freedom that the United Nations will grant any country after the war and the philosophy that they will carry out,” said Dr. Nordskog.
ALLIES SHOULD HELP
He feels that in order to attain complete unity between the allies which is so vital now, England alone with ,the United Nations should support the allied program rather than expect their non-violence theory to be effective against the axis powers, although non-violence has not been unsuccessful against the British.
Air Wardens Called
All air raid wardens and fire watchers appointed by fraternities, sororities, and the dormitories are to meet at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, 833 West 28th street, tonight at 7:15.
He disclosed that the presidential messages which were delivered to French Chief of State Henri Philippe Petain and African officials at the moment of the American invasion Saturday night actually were the transcription of his broadcast to the French people—which was shortwaved to France and Africa Saturday night.
RUSSIA CONSULTED
He made it plain that Russia and the other 'American allies were fully consulted and left the implication that Russia approved the offensive.
The timetable showed the African second front decision was reached before the recent allied raid on Dieppe, French port just across the English channel from Britain.
Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that the people were beginning to talk about a second front when actually a second front decision already had been made.
FRONT DISCUSSED EARLY
He revealed that from the mo ment Churchill and his staff arrived here two weeks after Pearl Harbor, American and British leaders continually considered and discussed many possibilities for an offensive, especially the possibility of a large frontal attack across the channel.
Military and naval opinion at the time, he said, was that such a frontal attack would be feasible and a great deal of work was done along those lines.
But more thorough studies of the physical problems involved made it more and more apparent, he said, that an offensive against the Belgian coast could not be carried out (Continued on Page Four)
Baxter Discusses Poetry in War
The war’s effect on poetic talent is the subject of the speech that Dr. Frank Baxter, professor of English language and literature, will give at the regular meeting of the Friday Morning club, at 10 a.m. in the Figueroa clubhouse.
Since the advent of World war II, there has beer considerable flowering of the poetic pen in England. Young men sent to the front have turned their thoughts to poetry in an effort to express their feelings, and some excellent verse has been turned out, according to Dr. Baxter.
Many of the finest potential poets were lost in the first world war, but as was true then, probably the best work will be turned out after the war when a clearer perspective can be gained, he added.
Dr. Long Illustrates Democratic Values
“Democracy, Axis Dictatorship and Truth,” was the theme of Dr. Wilber Long’s lecture before the 25th annual philosophy forum yesterday in Bowne hall. Dr. Long contrasted Democratic values and truth with the axis’ disregard for all things that western civilization has set up as fine and right.
Using the statement that “Truth
BMOCs Win Their Laurels in Who s Who'
Selected College Group Receives Nominations of 20 SC Students
Recognized for character, scholarship, leadership, and potentiality for future usefulness to business and society were 20 students who were nominated by a senate committee under Bob McKay for membership in Who’s Who Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges.
The Who’s Who publicaton was created ten years ago as a basis for national recognition for students, without politics, initiation fees, and dues. The book provides a standard reference volume of authoritative information on America's leading college students. Whos’ Who provides an added incentive for student* to get the best results from their college experience.
MANY COLLEGES ENTER
Six hundred and fifty colleges and universities participate in the plan which endeavors to make desirable placements for those listed in the book.
This year’s nominees form SC are Clark Bates, football manager; Bill Beaudine, Knight; Bill Bledsoe, football player; Bob Ffske; Don Hoover, Wampus editor; Aurel Gilbert, Blue Key president.
OTHERS NAMED
Ted Gossard, basketball captain; Bruce Graham, Knights’ president; Hubie Kerns, track star; Dick Koontz, NROTC commander; Lael Lee, director of SC’s car-sharing plan; Phil Levine, senior class president.
Russ Lindersmith, head yell king; John Lowe, El Rodeo editor; Gordon Marshall; Leon “Mickey” McCardle, football star; Bob McKay, ASSC president; Hugh McKeller, president of the college of commerce; Ted Olewine, assistant yell leader; and Sam Roeca. Daily Trojan editor.
All-U Chorus
. . member^ of the singing chorus for the all-U show, “ 'Neath Tommy Trojan,” are requested to report to 4 Music building at 4 p.m. today. Members who miss two rehearsals are automatically dropped from the chorus, Lynn Cohne, producer of the show, explained.
and good faith are the life blood of democracy,” Dr. Long commented that there is no place in a democracy for false propaganda, because a democracy can only thrive on truth and as soon as false statements and false rumor? begin to filter into the minds of the people they tend to lose faith in their government.
It was not until the bombing of Pearl Harbor that the western world began to think about the danger that faced it. It was then for the first time that they began to consider the aggressions of the axis nations as a reality.
“Democracy,” ^i°n? brought out, “is not only a form of government by the people, but it is a way of life a moral outlook towards people and nations.’* Dr. Long pre-
sented the idea that nations as a whole must maintain a high degree of good faith between them in order to keep from having another misunderstanding between nations, which will, if not corrected at the end of this conflict, only lead to another world war.
Dr. Long told the forum that democracy represented the complete and mature flowering of civilization, while axis dictatorship retrograded to early tribelism.
It was pointed out that in any number of cases the dictator nations bandoned all ideals of truth and honor to gain their ends. Dr. Long made the emphatic remark, ‘‘That if the axis powers win this war, we cannot fear desth when ue think of a life in an axis dominated world.”
Marine Officers Interview Men for Acceptance
Men students who have passed their marine corps physical examinations will be interviewed for acceptance into the corps today by members of the marine corps enlistment group who will meet for this purpose in 16 Physical Education building.
Applicants should bring with them their birth certificates, complete transcripts of scholastic records, parents’ release^ signed in triplicate, five letters of recommendation, and individual photographs.
Students who wish to apply for enlistment in the marine corps reserve and who have not already been accepted may also consult with the representatives.